Sentences with phrase «affect on society»

The personal satisfaction of finding solutions that may have a tangible affect on society is a great reward for many.

But, no matter what your opinion is on actual marijuana usage, the fact that the DEA is open to revisiting a legal classification that many view as deeply flawed could be a sign that government officials are finally going to fix laws that have had serious affects on the society it is supposed to be serving and protecting.

Imperator: Rome is a technique sport within the vein Paradox is intimately aware of, however with a big emphasis on the individuals who have an outsize affect on societies.

Not exact matches

As the American Cancer Society says on its website, «the Prop 65 labels only tell you that a product has something in it that might cause cancer or affect reproduction.

What was also noteworthy in Rometty's speech was an emphasis on how AI can potentially affect society, not just businesses.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

«Automated, accurate, and cheap personality assessment tools could affect society in many ways: marketing messages could be tailored to users» personalities; recruiters could better match candidates with jobs based on their personality; products and services could adjust their behavior to best match their users» characters and changing moods; and scientists could collect personality data without burdening participants with lengthy questionnaires.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

He sounds like a little kid who's playing house with 4 women for short term gratification, but doesn't consider or acknowledge the long term affects on the children or on society.

On the other, atheists would argue that a world directly guided by reason and evidence is more effective in addressing both general and specific issues affecting the rights and quality of life of individuals and societies.

The cost is more than individual: when multiplied by the over 1.1 million divorces per year — which affect almost 1 million children annually — an enormous cost is piled on society every year.

Social Christianity (which on the whole is simple socialism), the Bekenntnis Kirche (which, once Hitlerism was defeated, merely aligned itself with anti-Hitlerism, thus with what might be called socio - communism), the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr (which, while solidly thought out, affected neither church nor society)-- all have failed.

Many evangelicals and fundamentalists have sought uncritically to impose revealed norms of religious righteousness on the secular society with little if any justification insofar as how such policies would affect nonbelievers.

This is the affect on Patriachy on our Society.

Again, value - judgments are less directly involved in the details of work in the natural sciences than in many other fields; in the social sciences, for example, a scholar's work is more strongly affected by his views of the nature of man, his values and goals, and his perspective on society.

Our prevailing legal emphasis on the free, self - determining individual fits quite well with the series of economic and social changes that, by liberating so many of us from family and group ties, have dramatically affected the capacity of families to carry out all the tasks for which society continues to rely on them.

Characterizing world consciousness as «a very high level abstraction which has affected the thought patterns of an individual or of a society» (p. 5), Regan goes on to show how for Whitehead the approximation to world consciousness and the development of religion are parallel.

People attempt to influence government policy on how we deal with issues affecting all of society — including criminals and drugs — based on rule books like the Bible and Koran.

We are aware of the shadow; but to obsess over it rather than focus on the opening ourselves to the Good is not going to affect any transformative change in either indivdiuals or societies.

It does not have the affect on the person or society (though) of other sins.

How does Hume's emphasis on form and procedure (as opposed to Plato's emphasis on education and character) affect political culture and the development of political agents within such societies?

I never understood the affects society would have on my parenting until I became a mother.

The American Chemical Society released the results of a study on plastic baby teething products that showed all of them contained endocrine - disrupting chemicals that could affect child development.

If it does affect IQ (0 to 7 points according to various studies) the effect wils be significant across society and not on an individual level.

As a result of the societies work legislation which greatly affects the profession of Athletic Training has been past on multiple occasions.

I am currently in the process of editing another book, China Across the Divide: Domestic Politics and Society & China's Global Relations, which focuses on the intersection between international and local issues, such as growing Chinese consumerism and its affect on global markets, recent waves of immigration to China, and human rights.

Quizzed on the issue of immigration at Prime Minister's Questions this week May insisted that immigration depressed wages and affected the poorest in society hardest.

Charging the masses with reporting on others has affected the very fabric of our society, creating the potential for discrimination against all migrants and ethnic minority communities, and spreading suspicion and division.

Commenting on the lawsuit, Mr. Adom Otchere remarked that «the courts, historically, will not rule to affect the higher expectations of society.

Through these, the negative things we used to see in foreign countries are finding their way here and our young men and women pick them up and it is affecting our society,» he told Kwadwo Asare - Baffour Acheampong (KABA) on Asempa FM's «Ekosii Sen» political talk show on Tuesday February 9 while mourning Abuakwa North MP J B Danwuah Adu, who was killed Tuesday dawn at his Shiashie residence in the national capital, Accra.

We believe that this will go a long way in preventing the illegitimate shutting down of debate and activities on campus which has affected many universities in recent years, including several Humanist Students societies.

Mr Rawlings, who is the longest reigning Ghanaian leader, was concerned the media appear focused on profit which affects the quality of content required in shaping and forming society.

On Wednesday, Bratton described synthetic marijuana as a «scourge on our society,» and said, «It affects teenagers in public housing, homeless in the city shelter system, and it's quite literally flooding our streets.&raquOn Wednesday, Bratton described synthetic marijuana as a «scourge on our society,» and said, «It affects teenagers in public housing, homeless in the city shelter system, and it's quite literally flooding our streets.&raquon our society,» and said, «It affects teenagers in public housing, homeless in the city shelter system, and it's quite literally flooding our streets.»

The Bow Group opposed Government proposals to cut tax credits on the grounds that it would disproportionally affect the poorest in society and small business start - ups.

We aim to provide new perspectives on the interactions between science and public policy, and build a collective sense of responsibility necessary to positively affect society.

The summit, which was organized by the Government - University - Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Science and held in Washington, D.C., 11 to 12 November 2002, included representatives from government agencies, disciplinary societies, and several education and science organizations who presented a litany of policy prescriptions and recommendations on the educational and societal forces that affect the experiences and expectations of the nation's future scientists and engineers.

In 1976, the AAAS Board and Council jointly created a permanent Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility to develop policies and procedures to protect scientists, engineers and health care professionals against infringements of scientific freedom and responsibility, to monitor policies and actions taken by governments that might affect their professional rights and duties, and to promote attention to scientific freedom and responsibility within AAAS, its affiliated societies, and the general public.

«As a society it's like we're learning a new skill of text communication, and we don't fully understand or reflect on its power to affect so many people in ways that we may not have intended,» said Nels Oscar, an OSU graduate student in the College of Engineering and lead author on the study.

Science depends on public money, affects policy decisions, and offers risks and benefits to society.

ASDs can be a major source of stress on the long - term health, and social and financial well - being on affected individuals, their families and society as a whole.

Why It Matters: «Changes in fertility levels have a dramatic impact on society,» Bachrach says, affecting everything from couples» happiness to the solvency of Social Security.

Professor Bowles, who referred to the research in a panel discussion on «Nature's Marvellous Medicines» at the recent Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, said: «We were measuring how flavonoids affected the production of inflammatory mediators by cells stimulated by microbial products.

To investigate further, researchers from the American Cancer Society along with colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, embarked on this study to identify factors that affect away - from - home eating.

The research, being presented at Neuroscience 2015, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, is the first to focus on the transient changes that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can affect in patients with severely disabling post-stroke arm impairment.

Through the interactive graphic below, Climate Central takes a look at how this major climate pattern typically influences the world's weather, what it can mean for societies in the areas it affects, and what has actually been happening with this particular event, which ranks amongst the strongest on record.

«We have to consider there are two sides of the coin: On the one hand, the uptake of carbon dioxide moderates climate change but, on the other hand, it affects life in the ocean — with consequences for economy and society.&raquOn the one hand, the uptake of carbon dioxide moderates climate change but, on the other hand, it affects life in the ocean — with consequences for economy and society.&raquon the other hand, it affects life in the ocean — with consequences for economy and society.»

The chapter begins with recommendations related to the NSF, NASA, and the DOE, continues with comments on environmental factors affecting observing conditions for astronomy, briefly discusses professional development and the role of professional societies, and concludes with a reply to the questions posed to the committee by the Congress (see the preface).

Physicists in these fields have contributed to groundbreaking developments in technology that impact not only society as a whole, but often affect our individual lives on a day - to - day basis.

Plant Positive (www.plantpositive.com) has some amazing work explaining why we shouldn't use models of these marginalized societies, or of assumed genetic or evolutionary requirements to determine our eating habits (one being that genes are passed on only by those that live long enough to procreate, and are not affected by the longevity of that individual — it just isn't important for «survival of the fittest» in the evolutionary sense).

The Endocrine Society and Hormone Health Network share recommendations and concerns with lawmakers and federal agencies on behalf of individuals affected by endocrine conditions, but we can't move the needle without you.